Blows My Mind...
151, whats up with it hustler, man it blows my mind how little the fans out there buying this music really knows about this music, I truly think that might be a reason why record sales on a whole are down for Bay Area Rap Music. They don't study the album and soak in the knowlege.
Playa510, Big Hollis did produce on a C-Bo album, he produced "Paper Made" on the "Enemy Of State" album which was a great album, don't let the credits fool you sometimes people take credit for other peoples work.
BDNLLL, Come on now you know you wouldn't want to hear C-Bo rapping over the same type of beats that were on X-Raided "Unforgiven", that isn't C-Bo's style and it would not fit at all. The best production on a X-Raided album was the production that K.G. provided on Neferious "Speak Of The Devil", but still that production would not fit C-Bo. C-Bo needs that WestCoast Mobb Sound to sound good.
Big Hollis is not a GREAT producer he is a good producer, but he has been brilliant at times and he proves this on the Bad Azz "Personal Business" album with the track "We From The LBC", now that track is amazing, any producer will admit that.
Now to you fans, next time you pick up an album, "any album", study it, really listen to the songs, look at the credits, feel the producer, listen to the signature sound (every producer has their own sound) and really take in how much time and energy every person involved in that project took to get the project to where it is, In your hands and in your stereo. You the fan, you have to change the state of music, "YOU"!!!